The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-11-17
THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.l
Interesting Items Briefly Chronicled
49,. For Our Readers.

... TOR CuT HedCerS.
The Northern Pacific has just closed ell
contract for the sale of $4,000 acres of
timber land in Minnesota, lying alonGi
their Hhe Of road between range 20 and
Lake Superior. st.,
Rush Russell, the S-year-old son of
Taylor Russell, has been around Big
Stone City with shotgun, threatening
to shoot little children. He hrought
things to a Climax when he told little
Jessie Hallock he wonld shoot her il she
did not go home. The little girl was tod
much frightened to run, and he fired the
gun, shooting her in the face, disfguring
her for life. The gun was loaded with
sand, otherwise the shot would have,
proved fatal. -.
About 8 o'clock p. m. bomb was
found in the rear of the residence OF
James Brayton on Male near Sixty-thirdl
street in Englewood, near Chicago. Mr.
Brayton was one OF the jurors who con-
yicted the anarchists. .-r-
William NJ. Locke, a retired banker OF
DeB Moines, shot himself with revolver
and died almost instantly. He left note
stating it was his intention to take his
own life, and gave directions In regard to-
his funeral. He was troubled with in
sOmonia, and that is believed to have
been the cause of his suicide. |
About 10, O0o, 900 of brick were manu-
featured at Menimonee, Wis, this SEQ,
son.
A bronze statue of Longfellow is soon
be erected in Portland, Me-, the city Of
his birth.
The propeller Egyptian, consigned from
Ashland to Loraiu with !, 500 tons of ore,
sank at Lorain, Ohio.
Preparations are being made at Helena,
Montana, to celebrate the completion Of
the Manitoba railroad on Nov. 20.
Prairie fires near Fort Yates, d. r. :.
came nearly destroying the government
buildings. Many tons Of hay were
burned.
Twenty-six alarms Of fire were turned
In at St Louis in fifteen hours. Fears
were entertained that the blazes were the
work Of incendiaries, but the police scout
the idea and claim that tramps and boys
are the cause.
Natural gas has been found near Far
ibault, MINI.
The long-continued dry weather Is
causing much damage to winter wheat In
Illinois.
Secretary Lamar has intimated to Land
Commissioner Sparks that the interior
department is not quite large enough to
hold them both.
Cattle and hogs are advancing OF the
Chicago stock yards, owing to diminished
receipts. The season for shipping range
cattle is drawing to close.
The attempt to organize the steeI-pro-
ducing industries Of the United States
into an association for mutual advantage
and protection Is engaging the attention
of the largest institutions Of the country.
The German government has issued
another warning against emigration to
America.
A collision on the Manitoba road near
Glyndon between freight and wild stock
train resulted in FIVE deaths.
On Nov. 20 the Northern Pacific will
put on fast limited train TO the coast.
iris train will leave st. Paul at 4 p. M,
stopping only at the larger towns. The
time to Tacoma will be seventy-one and
one-han hours, which is eleven hours
Certificates of incorporation OF ths
u. S. Congo Steamship and immigration
company, with Offices at WASHINGTON and
other cities, have been filed at Washing
ton. The capital stock is 1000, 900. Ii
is proposed to operate steamship line
between the United States and the Congo
country, making the transfer of emil
grants speciality,
Bud Trainer, q notorious Cherokee out
law, has given himself up to a United
States marshal.
Tt is predicted that the cut of pine this
winter on the Menominee river and it's
tributaries will be between GOO, 600, 600
and $50, 000, 900 feet.
J: II. Chandler, of Chicago, has caused
something of sensation among people
interested in mining property in Michi-
gan by presenting claim to forty acres
OF land that has long been used by the
Calumet and Hecla Copper Mining COM
pany. His title is derived from patent
granted him by the state, and rests for
its validity upon recent decision of the
United States supreme court.
New York police are after Herr Most.
It is now claimed Lingg used a genu-
inc bomb, not u Illuminating cap, to kill
himself.
Snow sheds and fences are being built
On the line of the Helena, Butte s. Boul-
der railway.
The London Daily News commissioner
in Ireland describes the situation there as
one of social war. Rent has disappeared
and resistance TO landlords is almost in
evitable.
Pipestone has voted 500, 900 bonds for
water works, the vote standing III for
and 81 against. The contract is let to q
Dubuque firm, and the work will COM
mence at once. "
The total number of immigrants arriv-
ing in Canada during the past ten months
was l2S,620, compared with 102, 424 for
the same period last year. The number
settling In Canada was 81, 701 against
81, 255.
The contract for the Fergus Falls
asylum will be let Dec. 20.
A large deposit of lead has been dIscov-
cred near the northern boundary of Saw
yer county, Wis.
A Washington dispatch states that Don
NJ. Dickinson, Of Michigan, has notified
the president that he will accept the posi-
ton of postmaster-general.
The 500 Line Completed.
MINNEAPoLIs, Nov. 16.-Word was re-
ceived at the headquarters of the Sault
Ste! Marie road that the last rail, making
a continuous line of iron from Minneapo-
lis to Gladstone, had been laid near Pike
river.
To Represent Dakota.
MITCHELL, d. T., Nov. 16--Judge Edg-
erton, of this city, has been invited to